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There’s a couple of different ways to name this type of music, but the one that I think captures it all is “safe-zone”. Whether you’re in town (for an RPG), or on a save-screen (in a metroidvania); you’re safe. You…

In the previous part of this series, we learned about OpenAL, setting it up, and getting it to play a .WAV file. That was everything we needed for a small game, everything except the music. That’s because music files are…

Do you need a cool idea for a new game but you’re struggling to think of anything interesting? I mean, all the games have already been made already right? Well, the random game generator below has over 55,000 possibilities that…

You’ve thought about the rendering engine in Part 1, taken a look at all of the work needed in Part 2, and covered the sorts of functions you’ll need for audio in Part 3. Now we’ll go over the various…